Fungal Infection

Harnessing AMF-plant-microbe systems for heavy metal remediation.

Soil heavy metal pollution poses a global environmental threat, demanding effective and sustainable remediation strategies. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play a multifaceted role in enhancing the remediation of heavy metal (HM)-contaminated soils through extensive hyphal networks that interact with plant roots and soil microbiota. AMF hyphae and their exudates, such as glomalin, directly immo...

Multiharmonic imaging-based automated recognition of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

BACKGROUND: Cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCLs) are a heterogeneous group of non-Hodgkin lymphomas, with mycosis fungoides (MF) being the most common type, accounting for approximately 60% of all lymphomas arising primarily in the skin. Diagnosis of MF is challenging, especially in its early stages when the number of atypical T lymphocytes is small, and clinical and histopathological changes are of...

Smart and Sustainable Polymers for Nanopesticides in Green Plant Protection Innovation.

Nanopesticides, fabricated by nanotechnology to stabilize pesticide active ingredients in formulations and/or dispersion systems at the nanoscale, are...

Digital decision support integrated with diagnostics and precision fungicide application for Southern Corn Leaf Blight in maize.

Molecular docking approaches in mycetoma: Toward improved patient management.

Mycetoma is a neglected tropical disease characterised by chronic, granulomatous inflammation of the subcutaneous tissues, often leading to disfigurem...

Untargeted Metabolomic and Lipidomic Profiles of Gingival Crevicular Fluid in the Context of Periodontitis.

AIM(S): This cross-sectional clinical study aimed to explore the untargeted metabolomic and lipidomic profiles in gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) obta...

Discriminating models of trait evolution.

A central challenge in comparative biology is linking present-day trait variation across species with unobserved evolutionary processes that occurred ...

Low resource federated learning for classification of nail disease by deploying cross-silo and heterogeneously dataset distributions.

Nail diseases, including such common conditions as fungus, and more serious issues like melanoma, may be important clues to the overall health and req...

Carbon-phosphorus exchange rate constrains density-speed trade-off in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal growth.

Symbiotic nutrient exchange between arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and their host plants varies widely depending on their physical, chemical, and b...

FungiGuard: identification of plant antifungal peptides with artificial intelligence.

Antifungal peptides (AFPs) are crucial for plant defense against biotic stress. Yet, no artificial intelligence tool specifically classifies plant AFP...

Multi-omics profiling of chronic immune-mediated skin diseases: SKINERGY protocol and strategic evaluation.

BACKGROUND: The Dutch flagship project Next Generation ImmunoDermatology (NGID) aims to profile five chronic immune-mediated inflammatory skin disease...

Semi-supervised multi-class pneumonia classification using a CNN-cascade forest framework.

Medical imaging diagnosis of pneumonia must be accurate at distinguishing between the various disease subtypes but must be resistant to sparse annotat...

iAFP-fLRM: Accurate identification of antifungal peptides via hybrid deep learning architecture and multi-modal feature fusion.

Fungal infections (mycoses) represent a significant and increasing global health concern, particularly in immunocompromised populations. The emergence...

Dual-kingdom necrobiome succession extends postmortem interval estimation into skeletonization.

Forensic estimation of the postmortem interval (PMI) becomes increasingly challenging when decomposition progresses beyond the initial weeks, as tradi...

Enhancing nail disease diagnosis: a capsule network with SE attention and dual backbone models.

Nail diseases, including fungal infections and malignancies, pose significant health risks and may lead to severe complications if not accurately diag...

A hyperspectral co-design framework guided by occlusion sensitivity for early mould detection in bamboo.

Schizostachyum funghomii McClure is a bamboo species vital to traditional craftsmanship. However, it is highly susceptible to mould, which degrades ma...

Viability and prediction of encapsulated Trichoderma spp. isolates using machine learning: a multi-layer perceptron-based approach.

The development of microbial bioproducts requires understanding the stability and viability of cells during storage. Accordingly, this study evaluated...

Agri-vision Bangladesh: A multi-crop augmented image dataset for automated disease diagnosis in Bottle Gourd, Zucchini, Papaya, and Tomato.

This article introduces Agri-Vision Bangladesh, a comprehensive, augmented image dataset designed to advance automated disease diagnosis in four econo...

Mushroom-derived Immunomodulators: Mechanistic insights, omics integration, AI innovation, and clinical applications in precision immunotherapy.

Mushrooms are rich in structurally diverse bioactive compounds that exert potent immunomodulatory effects, making them promising candidates for next-g...

An annotated dataset of Gram stains from positive blood cultures.

Bloodstream infections (BSIs) of high morbidity and mortality are across all age groups, and urgent for accurate intervention. Gram stain interpretati...